American History Ch 14

By the end of the 1850s, the two-party system in the United States

accentuated rather than muted regional controversy.

Sherman's march through Georgia was designed to

break the will of the Southern people.

During the Civil War, Northern women

entered nursing, a field previously dominated by men.

The Union Army

had a higher mortality rate for black soldiers than white soldiers.

Which of the following was NOT enacted by the Republican Party during the Civil War?

hard money policies requiring all payments in gold or silver

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves

in areas of the Confederacy except those already under Union control.

The New York City draft riots

included lynchings of a number of African Americans.

The United States was upset when England declared neutrality because

it meant that the two sides in the conflict were of equal stature.

The Confederacy ultimately financed its war effort through

paper money.

In which of the following acts did Lincoln NOT "ignore" the Constitution?

putting diplomatic pressure on England not to recognize the Confederacy

In England, which of the following supported the South?

ruling classes

King Cotton diplomacy

was a failure.

The first battle of the Civil War was

First Bull Run.

G.T.T stands for:

Gone to Texas!

The first seven Southern states that seceded were

All the answers are correct.

Which of the following was an advantage enjoyed by the South at the outset of the war?

All the answers are correct.

Which of the following was true when the Civil War began?

All the important material advantages lay with the North.

The iconic quote from David Crockett was:

Always be sure you are right, then Go Ahead!

The last major battle of George McClellan's tenure as commanding general of the Army of the Potomac was

Antietam.

Which of the following stands did President Buchanan take after the first state seceded?

No state has the right to secede from the Union; however, the federal government does not have the authority to stop a state from seceding from the nation.

Which of the following battles was fought in the western theatre?

Shiloh

The most concrete legacy of the Civil War for Southern white women was the

decimation of the male population and the creation of a major sexual imbalance in the region.

At Fort Sumter,

the Confederates fired the first shot of the Civil War.

The greatest source of division in the South was

the doctrine of states' rights.

Historians have debated all of the following about the Civil War EXCEPT

whether the slaves contributed to the Northern victory.